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First Mozilla release candidate on the way
News Mozilla, the long-awaited open-source version of the Netscape browser, is to release its first beta-test version aimed at a broad audience in the next few days. Mozilla has created a branch of the ongoing repository of code, or "tree", which will...
[April 11, 2002, 12:18]
First release candidate of Firefox 3 arrives
News The first release candidate of Firefox 3 was made available to developers on Friday, ahead of the browser's scheduled full release in June. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) features tweaks to the user interface across all operating systems...
[May 19, 2008, 12:15]
Red Hat's first combined release with JBoss
News Red Hat on Monday is expected to release the first combined product release following its acquisition of JBoss earlier this year. With its first application infrastructure release, Red Hat is aiming to create the base components needed for a wide...
[September 18, 2006, 16:40]
Wine gets its first stable release
News The first stable release of Wine has made an appearance, after 15 years of development and testing around the world. The project started in 1993; the first beta version was released in October 2005; and Wine 1.0 was released on Tuesday.
[June 18, 2008, 13:02]
Windows 7 Release Candidate: a first look review
Reviews Windows 7 has entered the home straight, with the appearance of what looks likely to be its one and only Release Candidate (RC). With a feature-complete Beta release, and remarkable transparency on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, there are very few...
[May 5, 2009, 13:03]
Office 2003 gets service pack launch date
News Microsoft announced on Friday that it expects to release the first major update for Office 2003 in late June. Microsoft typically waits about six months after a major product release to put out the first service pack (SP1), a collection of...
[January 26, 2004, 10:25]
Microsoft brings copy protection to consumer apps
News Microsoft is set to release its first mainstream consumer software application protected by product activation, in what could be a first step toward expanding use of the antipiracy technology. By providing the new release.via the Internet," he said...
[January 2, 2003, 15:19]
Key mobile Linux platform out in March
News The LiMo Foundation has announced the first release of its mobile Linux platform. On Monday, the LiMo Foundation said it would issue the first release of its platform in March. Gillis explained that the technology within the first platform release...
[February 4, 2008, 10:37]
Key testing version of Windows XP released
News The first release candidate is feature complete, including support for HailStorm, one of the cornerstones of Microsoft's .Net software-as-a-service strategy. However, the decision to pull Smart Tags came too late for their removal from the first...
[July 2, 2001, 10:33]
Apple readies first Jaguar update
News Apple Computer this week plans to release the first update to recently released Mac OS X 10.2, also known as Jaguar, sources said. Apple launched Jaguar with great fanfare late evening on 23 August, with many Apple retail stores reporting release...
[September 17, 2002, 8:27]
Interactive Video Plugin
Downloads This version is the first release on CNET Download.com. Kaltura is the developer of the first open-source video platform. This new release adds full interactive video capabilities to any WordPress hosted blog.
[August 15, 2008, 8:08]
Photos: Native Aqua OpenOffice on Mac
News The OpenOffice team have announced this week the first alpha release of the Aqua version of OpenOffice productivity suite for Mac OS X. Although it is an alpha release with known bugs, we found it quite stable, but wouldn't risk using it for...
[June 11, 2007, 12:56]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile management tool
News Microsoft is to release its first server-based tool for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. However, SCMDM will only work with a new version of Windows Mobile and new devices supporting that version, which are both scheduled for release...
[October 23, 2007, 11:30]
New ooVoo Release (1.6)
Blog This is the first ooVoo release that is not designated as a "Beta", and it is the beginning of their move to a clearly defined "free" basic package and additional paid services on top of that. The first thing to be said is that I downloaded and...
[May 14, 2008, 10:26]
Monday's Memphis beta may disappoint
News Microsoft will release a first public beta test version of Memphis on Monday, amid reports that it may offer little for most users. The first Memphis beta will also offer the first glimpse of Microsoft's vision of the Active Desktop, running with...
[June 27, 1997, 16:08]
FreeBSD 5.3 beta is released
News Scott Long, the software engineer leading the release work, said the first beta release revealed some significant bugs in the way the software handled multiprocessor operations. The first beta of FreeBSD 5.3, the popular open source operating...
[August 25, 2004, 17:35]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 review
Reviews It has taken Microsoft a while to get Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to market, and this first release doesn't offer all of the functionality originally planned. It would be wrong to assume that this first release of VMM 2007 is crippled in any way...
[February 28, 2008, 11:11]
Microsoft Virtual Server R2 ships with Linux support
News Microsoft Virtual Server Release 2 has begun shipping to manufacturers and is due for general release in the first week of December with a new pricing model and a number of new features, most notably formal support for Linux.
[November 16, 2005, 12:05]
GNOME gives peek into next-gen Linux desktop
News Free-software developers have released the first pre-release of the next generation of GNOME, one of several Linux desktop environments that make the operating system simpler to use. The program is in the last stages of bug-catching and the first...
[October 5, 2001, 16:30]
Firefox achieves 100 million downloads
News On Thursday, they'll get back to work on version 1.5, the first release of which should ship in about two weeks. Just shy of Firefox's first birthday party, the Mozilla Foundation celebrated the 100 millionth download of its Web browser Wednesday.
[October 20, 2005, 9:45]
